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Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS4 Bible
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Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS4 Bible

by Joseph Lowery
March 2009
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
1321 pages
46h 24m
English
Wiley
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Part VI
Enhancing Productivity and Web Site Management
You can change the name of the automatically added editable region by selecting the
template region tab or its tag in the Tag Selector and then changing the name in the
Property inspector.
To add an editable optional region, follow these steps:
1. Choose Insert ➪ Template Objects ➪ Editable Optional Region or, from the Templates
menu of the Insert panel, click the Editable Optional Region icon.
2. Follow the procedure outlined for inserting an optional region.
3. Click OK when you’re finished.
Of course, if you want to add an editable region to an optional region containing locked content, you
can always do so when editing the template.
Setting optional region properties
Although you set up an area of the page to be optionally displayed in the template, you actually
choose the display option—whether to show or hide the region—in the document created from
the template. As with editable attributes, the Template Properties dialog box handles control of the
optional regions. Unlike editable attributes, optional regions only use true/false values to determine
whether a selected region is either shown (true) or not shown (false).
Instead of the template parameter statement found in templates, Dreamweaver inserts instance
parameters into the
<head> section of the template-derived document, like this one:
<!-- InstanceParam name=”mainLogoRegion” ...
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